Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more

Download & Play

Questions

Newspaper Page Text

l ,1 .11. ' " "" ' " . "' ...... " ...... II I I ' 1 1 I I I -I "" ' ' ' II I I
SUBSCRIPTION: 31.00 Per Tear.
BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1889.
VOL. XXIV. NO. 31,
THE WOULD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
in rrxKcirnvK snnsiox.
When the Henate mt. on the 11th Sen
ator Beck appeared and took the oath cf office
for his third term. A short recess wr.s thea
taken and upon reasnembJinir m number of nom
inations were received from the; 1'reaident,
rhirh were referred, nnd the Senate adjourned.
The nomination nent in were: Minister to
(Spain, Thomas V. 1'almor, of Michigan; Minis
ter to Japan. John K. Swift, of California; Min
ister to Switzerland, John D. Washburn, of
Massachusetts; Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, Geonje Tichnor. of Illinois.
: Boon after the Ken ate met on the 12th n
message was received from the President sub
mitting tho ptvpt rs In the Louis Heil caso. Tho
standing committees wero elected Dd reveral
elect committees appointed ty resolution. A
long debate was had on the motion of S-nator
1'ayne to strike from the list of select commit
tees the one "On Relations with Canada" but
the motion was finally withdrawn. The nom
inations of Thomas W. Palmer, to be Minister
to Spain; John F. Swift, to bo Minister to Ja
Ian; John D. Wnshburn, to be Minis
ter to Switzerland, and Cleorga CV.
Tlchninr, to be Assistant Secretary of tho
Treasury,- wero confirmed. The President
aent In the followinn nominations which
"were referred: Arthur C. Millett, to be
Governor and Luther 11. Hirhardson. to be
Secretary of Dakota (both of Dakota);
Cornelius II. rianford. to be Chief Justice of
Washington Torrltory; George W. Irvln, to be
Marshal of Montana: S. V. Chambers, United
States Attorney for Indiana; Ocorire S. Uatch
eller, of New York, to bo Assistant Secretory
of the Treasury ; Albert G. Porter, of Indiana,
to be Minister to Italy: John A. Knandor, of
Illinois, to be Minister to Denmark, and several
names for postmasters.
Biviral resolutions were Introduced la
the Senate on the 13th and referred. In execu
tive session the Senate confirmed A. C. Millette
to be Governor, and D. H. Kichardson to be
Secretary of Dukota: Cornelias IL Hanford, to
be Chief Justice of Washington Territory;
George W. Irvin, to be Marshal of Montana;
Smiley N. Chambers, Untied Slates Attorney
for Indiana; Georgo S. Uatcholler, to be As
sistant Secretory of the Treasury; Albert G.
Porter, to be Minister to Italy; John A. Knan
dcr, to be Minister to Denmark; Walker Illalne,
to be examiner of claims for tho State Depart
ment, and one postmaster.
In the Senate on the llth Senator Oib
on spoke on his resolution for the appointment
of a select committee on the relations of the
United States with Mexico. In executive ses
sion the nomination of J. S. Clarkson, of Iowa,
to be First Assistant Postmaster-General was
confirmed, and the Senate adjourned until
Monday. Among the nominations sent to the
Senate were: Louis Woltley, Governor of Ari
zona; Kathborne Gardner, United States At
torney for Rhode Island; Wtlllnm L. DunJap,
United Stales Marshal for Indiana; John A.
Kasson (Iowa), William Walter Phelps (N. J.),
and George H. Hates (DeL), to be commission
ers at the Uerltn conference on Samoan affairs,
and a number of postmasters.
A battirt of boilers exploded at tho
West Point boiler works, Pittsburgh, Fa.,
on the 14th, killing five or six of the work
men and in jurinsc many others.
ATA, of the six miners confined by the
falls of rock and coal at the Black Dia-
tnnrift minA near Mount Carmel, lra were
rescued alive and well.
Thk jury in the trial of Thomas P. Kerr,
the famous New York boodle alderman.
for bribery returned a vermes or. -dot
guilty." ,
WASHINGTON NOTES.
C. C. Watts, United States Attorney,
Charleston, W. Va., has been requested to
send In his resignation.
CoNGitKSSMit! Buchanan, Spinola and
Lee and Justice Stanley Matthews, who
were ill in Washington, are all reported
much better.
i The White House was closed to general
callers on the llth and President Harrison
confined his reception to those having ap
pointments and Congressmen about to
leave the city.
M. K. Hintos, United States Attorney
for the Western district of Missouri, has
sent his resignation to the Department of
Justice.
Aldack F. WAMtcn, of the Inter-State
Commerce Commission, has accepted the
chaivnianshlp of the Inter-Ktate Railway
Association at a isliry of ?2.r,00(), and will
Immediately close his affairs In Wash
ington. Hkaii Admiral. Davis, retired, died at
"Washington on the 12th, aged sixty-four.
He bad seen forty years' service.
Tint contractors building the new
cruiser Charleston at Sen Francisco have
telegraphed to the Navy Department that
the vessel will be ready in about three
weeks.
Thk Chief of the liurenu of Statistic re
ports that tho total value ot the exports
of beef and hog products during the
month Of February, lxsfl, were J7,4(ii!,4i2;
February, Ir.ss, ;f,.V.:i,n.s7. The values of
'lairy products were : February, 1SX), $.V$3,
421; February. 1W8, $274.C0rt.
John A. Kasson, of Iowa, Williara
"Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, and George
II. Hates, of Dolaware, have been selected
liw the rrnsi.leut to be commissioners to
'represent the United States at the con
ference to be held in Berlin concerning
affairs in the Samoan Island-.
THK KAST.
Thk trial of Engineer Cook, charged
with having caused the terrible railroad
disaster at Mud Hun, Pa., October 10, In
which sixtv lives were lost, has begun at
Mauch Chank, Pa.
At MarllKiro, Mass., recently Walter
fcnd William White, aged eight and six
teen years, saturated a box of powder with
kerosene and applied a matcn to It, caus
lng an explosion by which both were fa
tally injured.
'. Iron makens of Pittsburgh, Pa., art de
knondent over the Drevailing dullness in
tbetr line.
Tkrriblk outrages were committed by
masked robbers on families living in Fay-
t.t noiintv. Pa., the other night, Women
nd men were burned with red hot Irons
to force them to give up their money.
Not a trade is being made in copper on
the New York Metal Exchange, no one
caring to take hold in the present uncer
tainty in Europe.
An explosion in a paint shop on Ludlow
Street, New York, seriously injured the
two proprietors and wrecked many win
dows in the vicinity.
Tu Constitutional Prohibitory amend
ment in New Hampshire was defeated ob
the 12th by a large vote.
Harrison fc Co.'s rolling mill at Tort
land, Mis, was destroyed by fire the othei
night. Loss, $101,000.
ALL tha great pipe mills at Heading,
Pa,, were closed down on the lath.
At Henova, Fa., the other night, Fhilip
Paul, the chief of police, was shot dead by
Charles Ceary mt he went to unlock the
door ot the jail.
Thrkk' oilers t the St. Nicholas colliery.
Mahanov Citv. Pa., exploded recently. A
rhil.l killed bv a fragment of Iron and
Uve or six other persons seriously Injured,
This Western Union telegraph directors
met in New York recently and declared
the regular quarterly dividend of IV per
cent, tvtrnblo April 5. The surplus for
the last ouarlar of 1SS8 was $:W,S07.
THK Pennsylvania Railway Company
has jmihased 3,CK) feet of shore front on
Sw York bv for terminals.
Hi!tr lirtHi.ii hM been removed from
the pre mlency of the New York Society
lor the Intention of Cruelty to Animals,
which was founded bv his uncle. He was
too domineering to suit the board of man
aeers.
AT Marlloro, Mass, recently Walter and
"William AVhiUs aged eight and sixteen
vears. saturated a box of powder with
kerosene and applied a match to it, cans
Tng an explosion by which both were fatal
Iv injured.
A NfMRKR of miners were imprisoned
bv a falling of rock in the Black Diamond
mine at Shamokin, Fa., on the Hth. It
was hardly thought they could le rescued
alive.
THJB WEST.
A Herman who registered at a hotel In
Albuquerque, N. M., the other night as R,
Otto, Denver, Col., committed suicide In
the ball park by shooting himself. He
left a note saying he had meditated snl
cide for six months and the name regis
tered was not his.
Andrew Carnkoik has purchased the
Valley railroad, running between Cleve
land, sixty miles north, and Mineral
Point, fourteen miles south of Canton, O.
It has been known for a long time that he
owned the Lake Erie & Southern road.
Two men, supposed to be the ones who
robbed the Southern Pacific train nea
Pixley, CaW, last month and killed two
men, have been arrested at Bakersfleld,
Cal.
Thk Union Pacific switchmen's strike at
Denver. Col., has been declared off.
Grottkatj, the MUwauk Socialist,
sentenced to a year In the workhouse,
won his appeal in the Wisconsin Supreme
Court and all prosecution ceases.
Thk annual meetfcig of the Missouri Pa
cific Railway Company was held at St
Louis on the 12th. The old directors were
re-elected. The report was considered,
comparativnly, a favorable one.
Thk joint convention of coal miners and
operators held a short session at Colum
bus, O., on the 13th, at which the Indiana
operators gave notice that they would
withdraw from the convention.
BY the capsizing of the towboat Kan
garoo at Spottsvllle, Ind., the other day,
tbs owner and the cook were drowned but
the rest of the crew were saved.
On complaint of Rev. Dr. Bilbrook,
Methodist, Judge Ruddick of the circuit
court at Waverly, Iowa, issued a tem
porary Injunction to prevent the agent of
a St. Louis brewery from delivering beer
on orders.
John Tubsino was killed and much dam
age done by an explosion recently at the
Standard oil refinery at Limn, O.
Firk In Denver, Col., the other day
caused $100,000 loss to Knight, McClare At
Co., music dealers, and $43,000 loss to
other tenants.
Thk Inter-State Beef Combine confer
ence met at St. Louis on the 13th with rep
resentatives in attendance from Missouri,
Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Min
nesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and
Illinois. Senator Gillett, of Kansas, was
chosen temporary chairman, and Thomas
Cook, of Nebraska, secretary. After per
manently organizing many resolutions
were offered and referred.
Thk colored people of Springfield, 111.,
have decided npon the erection of a monu
ment to the memory of Abraham Lincoln,
William H. Seward, Charles Sumner,
Wendell Phillips, John Brown and soldiers
of the late war, to cost $200,000.
In rounding a curve near Falrview, N.
M., the other day, an Atlantic & Pacific
freight engine and fifteen cars were
wrecked and Brakeman Oliver Ferguson
was fatally injured.
Hon. Mosks W. Field, the original
Greenback advocate in Michigan, the man
who called the Greenback movement into
political prominence in the United States
and suggested the convention which nom
inated Peter Cooper for President, died at
Detroit, Mich., on the 14th.
Aktkr two days' discussion the Inter
State Miners' and Operators' joint con
vention, at Columbus, O., ended in the
dissolution of the agreement. The effect
on wages will probabiy be bad.
B. E. Gross, the well known real estate
man of Chicago, has been nominated for
mayor by the Labor party.
Thk glass wc ks of Stewart, Easter &
Co., Marion, Ind., have beeu destroyed by
fire. Loss, $."0,000.
Thk Indiana Supreme Court has decided
the act of the late Legislature cutting off
the fees of the Supremo Court reporter
and making the ofllce a salaried one un
constitutional. Tpk Supreme Court of Illinois has de
nied the motion to correct the judgment in
the case of Fielden and others against the
people, and at lot the "Anarchist case"
has been disposed of so far as the Supreme
Court is concerned.
Orders have been to prepare the Adams
at Mara Island. California, for a year's
cruise and the Iroquois at the same yard
for a three years' cruise.
Thk Acting Solicitor-General of New
Mexico has given a lengthy opinion de
claring unconstitutional the Live-Stock
Inspection bill recently passed by the
Territorial Legislature.
GENKK&I.
Thk American spool and bobbin trust,
formed In 1886 has colVepsed, the member
having broken faith lnonany instances.
Thk first report of tbe receivers of the
Missouri, Kansas & ISexas railway shows
the total earnings of ithe system for the
months of November and December to
hava been $1,131,874; total expenses, $706
674.
Thk Governor-General of India has or
dered an official Inqniry'Jnto the charges
that the Maharajah of. Cashmere had
been Implicated in a conspiracy to poison
the British Resident andun other treason
able plots.
William Burgess, a 'tanner of Mtmi
County, OnU has disappeared, leaving
STiO.000 debts and no asset.
The question of the retjurn of ex-Queen
Natalie, of Servia, to Belgrade has already
caused one challenge to .a auei oeiween
leading opponents in theiGovernment
Queen Victoria purposes going to Ban
Sebastian, Spain, shortly I for the purpose
of visiting the cemetery containing the
remains of the British soldjers who fell in
the Peninsular war.
Thk Wells-Fargo Express Company has
bought out the Pittsburgh & Western rail
way express.
Pabkell has brought suit la London
against the Times for 100,000idamages.
The steamer Remns, which had a Span
ish military expedition on board, has been
wrecked north of the Philippine islands,
and forty-two persons lost.
Private letters received In Werlm irom
Zanzibar,' say that Stanley, according to
native reports, is marchingrapidly toward
the east coast of Africa.
It is reported the secrets of the French
Patriotic League were betrayed to the
Government by a leading-official of the or
ganization. The identity of the informer
was trot known.
Thk Bell Telephone Company has de
clared a regular dividend of $S per share.
Two trappers in the Canadian Far North
have perished of starvation. Fears were
consequently expressed for Lord Lons
dale, who was on an exploring expedition
in the same region.
Several arrests have been made of per
sons who attempted to throw off the track
a train on which President Diaz, of Mex
ico, was recently traveling. The affair was
regarded as the result of a conspiracy to
murder PresidentDias or to abduct him.
Thk Canadian Revenue Department has
condemned American lard because of
adulteration.
Parnell was tendered a reception and
banquet at St James' HalL London, on
the night of the 13th. A large crowd out
side gave him an ovation.
A colliery explosion at Wrexham,
Eng., was the cause of twenty-four deaths
recently.
Admiral Juarez, of the French navy
and Minister of Marine, died suddenly on
the 13th from an apoplectic stroke. He
had won distinction in the Crimea, Italy,
China and Mexico. He also bore a promi
nent part in the Franco-Prussian war,
after the close of which he was elected to
the National Assembly.
AnxiBAL Jaures. French Minister of
Marine, died recently from an attack of
apoplexy. M. de Freycinet, Minister of
War, has assumed the place temporarily.
Thk Newfoundland Government will re
fuse to issue licenses for the purchase of
bait and outfits to American vessels this
year. Cutters are already guarding the
whole coast.
Thk Pope has approved the statutes of
the Washington University.
Thk British Government has abandoned
the idea of prosecuting Mr. O'Brien for
conspiracy. - '
Tamberlik, the famous tenor, died at
Paris on the 14th.
Advices from Samoa proved the falsity
of the reports of an engagement between
the German corvette Oiga and an Ameri
cana man-of-war.
There was a heated debate in the
French Chamber of Deputies on the night
of the 14th, M. Cassagnac daring the Gov
Armnnnt to arrest Boulanger. Several
duels appeared imminent.
Extensive floods are reported in Galicia,
Austria. Many towns are inundated.
A REPORT was received on the 15th that
Tascot t, the murderer of Snell, the Chi
cago millionaire, had been captured on
the banks of Lake AVinnipeg, in Manitoba.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended March 14 numbered 261.
compared with 281 the previous week and
223 the corresponding week of last year.
A Gladstonian was returned in the re
cent election at Kennington, London. Tba
seat was formerly occupied by a Conser
vative. Bt an explosion of fire damp in a col
liery near Nlmes, France, recently, fifteen
persons were killed and six injured.
Ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia, will soon
make application for the annulment of the
decree of divorce granted to her husband,
ex-King Milan. . . . :
TRADE REPORT.
Jtradstreet's Report of the State of Trade
for the Week.
New York. March. 16. Bradstreet
says: Special telegrams indicate a moder
ate improvement of general trade at New
York City, to a moderate extent also at
Pittsburgh, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago,
New Orleans, Galveston, Sk Joseph. Bur
lington, Omaha, Kansas City and San
Francisco. This warrants a report of a
noticeable gain in the distribution of gen
eral merchandise over the preceding
week. The more favorable weather ia
responsible for a large portion of the gain
Interior wagon roads are improved south
and mercantile collections are mors
prompt at Burlington, Detroit, Omaha,
Chicago and elsewhere. Wheat is
weaker and is 4?.'c lower under the influ
ence of an apparently bullish Government
crop report, which when analyzed proves
to be unquestionably untrustworthy. Tha
best available data indicate a total of not
less than 190,000,000 bushels (visible and
invisible) wheat in the country on March
1, 1889, against 210,000,000 bushels one year
previously. Flour is off 10c to 20c, and
corn 11 Xc. 'Additional reports to iirsa
street's as to cotton stock at interior
towns show an aggregate stock on Febru
ary 26, 1889,'at L0-J0 towns of 17,058 bales
of cotton against 273,46a bales February 1,
1889. a decline of 88 per Cent. IrorTis
steady but unchanged in price. Cheaper
coal will help makers of pig iron.
Rails are firm at 27 without enough
business to warrant the talk of an
advance. Anthracite coal, which has
been officially reduced 25 to 60 per cent.
will be cut by some operators and dealers
till further. New York and Boston dry
goods jobbers report seasonable activity
in the demand for spring and summer
fabrics. Print cloths and low grade brown
and bleached goods are firm but inactive,
in view of the restriction in the produc'
tion caused by the Fall River strike. .Raw
wool is one-half to one cent lower on light
demand from manufacturers only, who
are supplying immediate wants. Cotton
is in good demand at an advance of one-
sixteenth cent on spot. Business failures
number 195 in the United States this week,
against 221 last week and 141 this week
last year. Total number of failures in the
United States from January 1 to date were
8,143 against 2,616 in 1888. .
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
MILITARY TRIBUNALS.
TASCOTT. AGAIN.
Detectives Think . They Have Him This
Time, Sure Caught in Manitoba.
Bt. Paul, Minn., March 16. A dispatch
from West Selkirk, Man., says Tascotthas
been caught on Lake Winnipeg. No par
ticulars have been received.
Recently five detectives arrived from
Chicago having a clew to the whereabouts-
f Tascott, be being supposed to be work
ine In some of the neighboring lumber
camns. The detectives left here suddenly,
supposedly for British Columbia.
News arrived last evening from Lake
Winnipeg statfhg that Tascott had been
caDtured and is now on the way here in
charge of the detectives. Tascott was cer
tainlv here recently and there is a proba
bility that the right man has been found.
The Pioneer Press Winnipeg special
gives the following more definite state'
ment of the capture of Tascott: "Some
Indians arrived by dog train at two o'clock
yesterday at West Selkirk, conveying the
news that Tascott, the murderer or &neli,
the Chicago millionaire, had just been
captured on Lake Winnipeg by the Chi
cago detectives who, accompanied by the
son-in-law of the murdered man, have
been following a strong clew with the re
sult stated for the past few weeks. They,
arrived near here just after Tascott left
his work to go, he said, to Dakota. How
ever, they are reported to be on their way
to this city with the murderer."
A dispatch received at ten o'clock ast
night from Selkirk says the Indians who
brought the information from Iake Winni
peg have gone to one of the lodges at
the reserve for the night and can not now
be located. Great excitement prevails
among the villagers at Selkirk, but many
are disinclined to believe the report
brought in by the Indians.
The man who was traced to Rat Portage
bv the Chicago party and supposed to be
Tascott is reported to have gone north
from that place and would undoubtedly
strike Lake Winnipeg on his journey as
the country on the east of the lake is
almost impassable.
GRINNELL ON SOCIALISM.
THE strike of the weavers of Fall River,
M ass., bat been made worse by the shut
ting down cf m.'.N employing 2,000 persons
In other department".
.- Seveaal cases of insanity are reported
from the prison nt Sing Sing. N.
sequent upon the iiilon ed
THK eleven collieries of the Lehigh auJ
v.iir.l.artu Coal Company about Wilkes-
, .. ij . u'liii li hv bawn idie fine
iai,rUrv 2 wit: with nearly 6,0oo
., con-
liieiieKS of the
TUB SOUTH.
The body of Thomas Lynch, a promi
nent citizen of Monroe County, W. Va.,
was found at the foot of a precipice some
distance from his home. It was thought
certain it was a murder.
Captain F. W. Dawson, editor of the
Charleston (S. C) News and Courier, was
murdered recently by a Dr. T. B. McDow.
The cause of the killing wras said to be
on account of Dawson's remonstrances
against the Immoral advances of the doc
tor to a servant in uawsoivs employ.
McDow surrendered himself.
The Supreme Court of West Virginia
decided adversely to Goft's petition for
possession of the Governorship, refused
by Wilson. The light is now Detween ne
latter and Carr on a quo warranto pro
ceeding.
Mrs. General Grant has sent a check
for $U5 to the Confederate Soldiers' Home
at Austin, Tex.
Fire in Newman, Ga., the other night
destroyed the leading business square in
cluding the public library. Loss, $S4,0C0.
Five sailors were drowned by the wreck
of the American brig Agnes Barton off the
Virginia coast recently.
M attie Hobbs was burned to death in
Paris, Ark., the other day, and four other
persons badly hurt In trying to save her.
Her dress caught from a brush fire.
The negro Magruder F. etcher was
lynched at Tarley, Va. He had assaulted
a Mrs. Macready.
The grand jury has reported on the
Iberia Parish (La.) outrages, or regu
lators' case," in which some seventeen
persons were charged with conspiracy to
. . i ; T.w f..i n .1 nn
PaniSU Ci'I iaru Ja nrs. j w
bill."
Hon. John A. Campbell, ex-Justice of
the Supreme Court ot the United States,
and Assistant Confederate Secretary of
War, died at Baltimore, Md., on the 12th.
He was born in Georgia in 111.
Three coloied men were hanged at
Arkadelphia, Ark., recently for beating a
colored preacher to death.
The bodies of W. J. t lowers, nis wue
and two children were lounrt in the rains
of their residence at jiouow noci,
Tenn recently. There were suspic
ions of robbery, murder and arson.
A larhc number of citizens ol tren-
ville, S. C, have been warned ty v hite
caps that unless they behaved themselves
1 , i . a . i
topped playing earns ana siayrw
nights they would each receive thirty-
nine lashes.
The cotton warehouse and platform cf
Cely Bros., at Greenville. & C, was borned
ihe other day with 12,000 bales of cotton.
The fire was caused by a spark from a
passing engine.
By the fall of a trestle below Stanford,
Ky., the other day a freight engine and
two cat a were wrecked and the flmtnan
and a tramp were fatally injured.
Captain Heth W. Cox, a proaiietit
railroud contractor of B.rmiugtiank. Ala.,
wan run over the other urht by as freight
tra.r. sad killed.
,XUJS LATEST.
Thk Chilian Government has issued a
decree prohibiting the Immigration of
Chinese into the Republic.
George W. CHiLDS.of Philadelphia, will
permit the ase of the harp that belonged to
the Irish poet, Thomas Moore, at the
Scotch-Irish Congress to be held at
Columbia, Tenn., May 8-11.
The contest over the vacancy existing
in the office of Marshal for the Northern
District of Mississippi has resulted in ine
selection of John 8. Burton, of Holly
Springs, for the place.
The Acting Comptroller of the Currency
on the 18th authorized the City National
Bank, of Birmingham, Ala., to begin busi
ness w ith a capital of $100,000.
A spark from a passing engine set fire
to the cotton on the warehouse platfrom
at Greenville. S. C. on the 15th and 1300
bales were destroyed. The loss is $55,000.
Ex-President Cleveland and ex
Secretaries Bayard, Fairchild and Vilas,
left Washington on the 18th in a special
Pullman car via Atlantic Coast Line for St.
Augustine, Fla., en route to Cuba.
A dispatch from San" Francisco states
that the gold fever which prevails in
Southern California is the result of a well
devised land scheme and that tbe en
fortunate . miners and gold seekers who
have been lured to the Santa Clara region
by visions of untold wealth are doomed to
disappointment.
Telegraph communication with the
United States has been established) by
cable from Santiago de Cuba to Hayti and
San Domingo, thence to the Island of
Curaeoa, thence to LaGuayra and Caracas,
Venezuela, where connection is made with
the government land lines for tbe places
of the interior.
Thk first through train from Washington
City to the Mexican national capital ar
rived at its destination on the ISth. The
distance by the route of this train between
tbe capitals of the two republics is 2975
miles, which was covered ia 113 tours and
43 minutes.
Twk Supreme Court of West Virginia
has decided that neither Fleming, tbe
Democratic candidate, Goff, the Republi
can, nor the President of the State Senate,
is the lawful Governor. The Court decides
that Gov. Wilson holds over until his suc
cessor is chosen by the people.
Thk negro exodus from North Carolina
is about to take the form of colonization of
negroesln Arkansas. Negroes are holding
mass-meetings almost nightly, and nero
orators and preachers are nrging them to
coloulze.
The three-year-old child of Mrs. Lee
Oweos, residing near Dresden, Tenn., wa
burned to death on the 15tb, its clothing
beiug ignited while it was playing near
tbe tire. On foot was entirely burned off.
Remarkable Statement of trie Prosecuting
Attorney In the Anarchist Case.
Chicago, March 16. A large audience
at the Kenwood Club last night listened
to a paper on "Socialism in America" by
Judge Grinnell, who was State's attorney
in the Anarchist trial. There was fre
quent applause. He said: "The eager
desire of party leaders to obtain and re
tain office keeps Socialism and its attend
ant evils alive. In Chicago Anarchism
is exaggerated out of all proportions
to its power for do good purpose
and some members of both political
parties seem inclined to act so as to catch
this element. In my opinion the talk
about the Anarchists during this last win
ter has been a willful, wicked exaggera
tion of their power, an injury to the fair
name of Chicago, a serious- detriment to
its business interests and I confidently be
lieve tbe purpose of such exaggeration
was purely political. Anarchy as an
organization is dea in America.
Its advocates have 'resolved them
selves ; back .into . their former state
or parentage, namely, Socialism.- "The
Yankee law has terrified them. ' But we
can not with the same ease brush aside
Socialism. That ia here not to be snuffed
out. It can only be' evaded by returning
to the fundamental principles of our Gov
ernment, eschewing paternalism and class
legislation. - .."':
Terrible Crime Suspected. . ,
Nashville, Tenn., March 16.. A special
to the American from Hollow Rock, Ben
ton County, Tenn., says that the bonse
of William Flowers was burned last night
and Flowers, his wife and. two children
perished in the flames. Neighbors saw the
fire but arrived too late to.be of any as
sistance. Not a single occupant, of the
house was left to tell how tbe fire occurred.
There are suspicions of. murder and rob
bery. ' ' . ; : ' . '"
Sickness In Washington.
Washington, March 16. There are
probably more cases of pneumonia In tbe
city at present than at any period before
in several years. Nearly all of these cases
were contracted by exposure during the
ceremonies attending tha inauguration ot
President Harrison. Representative Town
abend and Mr. O'Brien, of the United
Press, are perhaps the best known of those
who died from the day, but there area
number of others stilt dangerously ill.
Sergeant-at-anns Canady, who held an
umbrella over President Harrison while
tbe latter w as reading his inaugural ad
dress, but who got thoroughly drenched
himself, is now lying sick at his little cot
tage on Delaware avenue.
Exbrndlnapa L-lno.
Beatrice, Neb , March 16 A meeting
of the Board of Trade was held last night
for conference with E Sommerfield, gen
eral manager of the Kansas City, Wyan-
rlnttA & Northwestern railway. Great
Interest was taken and the sentiment of
the business men favored inducing the
railroad to come to Beatrice. Summerfietd
addressed the board saying tbe company
would like to come her, lb board ap
pointed a committee to confer with Hum
mertleld and if possible gat a proposition
for tho entry of the road into thi city.
The roa l i now completed to tha Kansas
line and will be pushed this way as fast a
possible. I . .
Gabriel Warren, who was shot by a rob-
be.r at his home near Greensburg, Ky
one night recently while trying to protect
himselt, is dead.
Emanuel Gaskin, colored, was banged
at Camden, S. C, recently.for the murder
of Betsey Clarke, colored. - The execution
was private. -
There are 155 horses in training on the
Memphis (Tenn.) track, and the very fa
vorable, weather and consequent good
conditions for work have enabled trainers
to give their horses a fair degree of prep
aration lor the spring meetings.
George Dunnaway, the man who mur
dered bis nncle and aunt, and attempted
to murder his cousin, because the latter
had jilted him, in Rutherford County,
Tenn., a few weeks ago, was captured in
Charleston, Mo. Officers from Tennessee
went after him.
Mrs. John M. Clay, of Lexington, Ky.,
has lost, by old age, the chestnut brood
mare Skedaddle, twenty-nine years old,
by Imp. Yorkshire, dam Magnolia,, by
Imp. Glencoe. From her have descended
some of the most famous turf performers
ina.tnerica such as La Sylphide, Level
ler, Slyboots, Day Star and Savana C
A distressing affair occurred near
Fredericksburg, Va., recently, which re
sulted in the death of Mrs. Thomas Love,
who was shot dead by her husband. Mjv
Love was replacing the main spring in his
revolver, and Ms finger slipped from the
hammer. His wife was standing in front
of him and the bullet entered her left
breast, killing her instantly.
Fifty men in the Lookout rolling mm
at Chattanooga, Tenn., struck recently
owing to the discharge of two men for
drunkenness and offensive language.
John L. Adams, who has been starving
himself to death, died in his sleep in jail
at Macon, Ga. The watchers by his side
even did not notice the' dissolution.
A company has been organized in Knox-
ville, Tenn., to control the output of seven-tenths
of the marble quarries in East
Tennessee. The new company las , a
capital of $300,000, all of which has been
subscribed.
Major. Penn, - the gTeat evangelist of
Texas,' began a revival at Jackson,
Tenn., recently.- Tremendous crowas
flock to hear him day and night. Great
interest is being manifested and much
good done.
Governor Lee of Virginia astonisnea
the public recently by allowing a negro
couple to be married in his office in the
Capitol and then presenting tne groom
with a pardon which saved him from
spending Ms wedding day in the peni
tentiary. .
Six thousand colored people have lert
North Carolina recently for Mississippi,
Louisiana. Arkansas, Iowa and Kansas.
Twenty thousand more will go before the
1st of June.. In the eastern part or me
State farmers are left without a hand to
work crops.
Judge Wi F. Gregory died recently at
his home, in Hartford, Ky., from an ab
scess caused by injuries received in a fail
some weeks ago, He was in the fifty-first
year of Ms age, and was one of the most
prominent attorneys or tne county.
The Gulf House at "l nomas vine, ma,
was burned a few nights ago. The guests
escaped. The building was insured for
$5,000 and the lurniture for $3,000. This
lacks several thousand dollars or cover
ing the loss. The hotel was also a well-
known railroad eating-house.
James Stewart, a youth residing near
Hopkinsville, Ky., was engaged in cut
ting wood, a few days . ago, when his axe
became tangled in some vines, and sud
denly glancing struck him on the ankle,
almost severing his foot from his body.
He almost bled to death. His foot had to
be amputated. '
The capture by revenue officers of an
illicit distillery in Cleburne County. Ala.,
has resulted in a bloody feud between two
of the most prominent families in that
county. One battle has been fought, one
man killed outright and another danger
ously wounded.
Quite a sensation was created in Jack
son, Tenn., recently, when it became
known that D. E. Jetter, a farmer about
fifty years old, who lives a mile and a half
from the city, had been arrested for kill
ing his brother-in-law in Bouth Carolina!
in 1861.
Fred L. Hoke, of Shelby, N. C, recently
performed the feat of sucking six dozen
eggs in twenty minutes." It was done on'
a wager and in the. presence of several
witnesses. Mr. Hoke is seventy years old.
Spencer Robinson, a brakeman on the
Kansas City & Birmingham railroad, was
thrown from a freight car' under the
wheels of a moving train, a few days
since, and his body terribly mangled. He
died of Ms injuries, and Ms body was tak
en in charge by the railroad and carried
to Birmingham, Ala.', where it was bnried.
Paul Aiken, a son of Judge Aiken." of
Cleveland, Tenn., was horribly mangled
in the East Tennessee railroad shops at
Knoxville, Tenn., a few days ago. He was
adjusting a belt on the pulley, when his
sleeve was caught by the shafting. His
, i. i ,i i .....
arm, then nis uuuj, was mayu. uuui
the shaft, which was making 150 revolu
tions a minute.
The body of the man found on Twelve
Mile Island, near Louisville, Ky., recent
ly, proved to be that of E. R. Curren, a
deck passenger on the City ot Madison,
from Louisville ta Cincinnati. Curren
had been drinking heavily. ' '
The remains of, John Livingstone, a
iKiVtrnan. were found in the debris of a
collision that occurred on the East Ten
nessee road at Caswell's station, Tenn., a
few nights ago. ' He Was found between
two car loads of steel rails and every bone
in his body was broken. He was on Ms
Arind trip. Twenty-six cars were
wi-ocVfid and an engine, thrown over a
twenty-foot embankment.
The shocking murder of Captain Daw
eon, editor of the Charleston (S. C.) News
and Courier, by Dr.. McDow, whom Cap
tain Dawson accused of holding improper
relations with a domestic lu the employ
of fhe latter, has created an intense feel
Ingot indignation, coupled with profound
sympathy for the bereaved family
throughout the entire South, Captain
Dawson having been held in the highest
eRtem fev all who knew him. Ilia place
n RAMihom ionrnalism will be hard to
fill.
a Tr.tAr-Kt.ite Fair Association has
zed to hold an exMbit at At
lanta, Ga., next fall. The feature will be
thA nraunra of msiaect narnsuu, wu'j
hna tHven nrivate assurance that he will
visit Atlanta at that time. The exhibition;
Will be representative of the manufactur
ing interests or the ouin.
The trial of Charles Scott, manager of
the Lexington (Ky.) Opera-House, for
assault upon Sara J. Roberts, editor of
the.Kentucky Leader, occurred recently.
After testimony for the prosecution was
all offered Scott.pleaded guilty, and was
fined $75 and costs. The charge of cut
ting with intent to kill was dismissed.
The Citizens' National Bank of Lebanon,
Ky-, capital, $KK),0OQr has been authorized
to begin business.
Albert Cullam, son of General William
Cnllam, of Clicton, Tenn., a sub-contractor
on the Knoxville, Cumberland
Gap & Louisville railroad, was shot and
killed by a band of mountaineers near
Tazewell, Tenn., . a few days since. He
was accused of having beaten an old
mountaineer named Sheffler.
The pitch, tj and wood distillery works!
back of New Orleans, of which Mr. G. D.
Lacy, of Grand Rapid, Michvia presi
dent, caught tire a few days since and was
burned down. Loss, $),O0J; about half
insured.
Mr. G. T. Niemao, a jroruiiient and
weal'Ky ruerchaut of Tiisrutulria, Ala., fell
dead iu hU residence, a few days ajo,
witli dropsy ot the heart.
PERSONAL, AND IMPERSONAL.
How General and Garrison Courts-Martial
Are Conducted.
The "Articles of War" provide . for
the trial by courts-martial of all per
sons under the control of the military
authorities of the country who may be
accused of offenses committed against
the regulations and laws enacted' for
the government of tbe armies of the
United States. Unlike the practice in
civil life, the combined powers of both
judge and jury are vested m the officers
composing a court-martial, they delib
erating upon the evidence of the wit
nesses, determining as to the guilt oi
innocence of the defendants, and pass
ing sentence upon culprits. An officer
is appointed as J udge-Advocate, whose
duties are to conduct the prosecution
as well as to act as counsel for the ac
cused when the latter has no legal ad
viser of his own. and to object to any
questions that might lead to an answer
on the part of the defendant tending to eployes to swear.
criminate himself.
So-called general courts-martial are
convened for the hearing and judg
ment of important cases and for the
trial of commissioned officers, and may
be appointed by any geaeral officer
commanding a separate army or de
partment. Such a court consists of
thirteen members, unless the exigen
cies of the service prevent the assem
bling of that number of officers; but in
no case may a general court have less
than five members.
Garrison and regimental courts-martial,
having three members, are ap
pointed by the commanding officer of
any post or regiment, and are con
vened for the trial of minor offenses on
the part of any. of the enlisted men
forminar the command. - As the, law
now stands, even the slightest infringe
ment of the rules of discipline calls for
action by a court-martial," and such
petty breaches of good conduct, as ab-,
sence from roll-call or from quarters
after "taps," slovenly or untidy dress,
quarrelsome ' or abusive .language to
comrades or non-commissioned officers,
etc., the penalty for which is. usually
the imposition of a slight fine to be
stopped from the soldier's pay, are
treated with all the form and cere
mony of trials-for grave offenses. The
sworn testimony of the witnesses, . ac
cording to the rules of evidence, must
be reduced to . writing, and a report
made of the proceedings in each case,
as the regulations prohibit tho execu
tion of any sentences by a court-martial
until its action is confirmed by the
officer ordering the" court. When the
fact is taken into consideration that,
according to the report of Colonel
Lieber, Acting Judgo-Advocatc-Gen-eral,
there were 10,447 trials before
garrison courts during the past year in
an army the total peace footing of
which is limited by law to a force of
but 25,000 men, it would seem that a
system les cumbersome and loss irk
some to both officer and men might be
devised bv which nettv violations of
regulations . could be punished - sum
marily without injustice
dier. Harper's Weekly.
OF GENERAL INTEREST,
to the sol
Is It Genuine?
Probably thousands of people in this seC'
tion of country, and this section is no ex
ception to any other in this respect in the
tin itrl States, have read the report said to
have been written by Prof. 8. A. Lattimore,
Ph. D.. LL. D.. Analyst of Foods and Medi
cines, New York State Board of Health and
Professor of Chemistry in the Rochester,
N. Y.. University, stating that all of the
Safe Remedies manufactured by H. H,
Warner & Co. were pure and wholesome,
nor did any of them contain any mercury oi
deleterious substance. To shorten tne con
troversy, however, we will give Prof. Latti;
more's report entire:
XXnivehsitt or Rochester, i
Chemical Laboratory, f
Mr. H. H. Warner has placed, in my po
session the lormulffl ot several meuicinua
manufactured and sold under tho general
designation of ."Warner's Safe Remedies.
I have investigated the processes or manu
facture which are conducted witn extreme
care and according to 'the best methods. I
have taken from the Laboratory samples of
all the articles used in the preparation of
these medicines, as well as the several med
icines in which they enter. I have also pur
chased from different druggists in this city
"Warner's Safe Remedies," and upon criti
cal examination I find them all entirely free
from mercury and from poisonous and dele
terious tuhstanees.
S. A. Lattimore, Ph. D., LL. D.
Analyst of Foods and Medicines, Now York
State Board of Health, Professor oi wnem
istry. University of Rochester, N. Y.J
We can not think that a flrm of the'stand-
ine of H. H. Warner & Co. would dare pub
lish such a statement if it were untrue, and
we now have that firm's authority to.say to
our readers that it is absolutely and un
qualifiedly true in every particular.
MILLIONAIRE , SENATORS.
Only Nine Fourteen Ye'ara Ago, Dt Wow '
There Are JInteen. . . i
I saw a man add up., to-day the fart- .
unesof the members . of the , Senate.
Of course, no other earthly thing is as
hard to find out as how rich a man is.
lie himself very seldom knows; and the
human imagination is weak, indeed,
when it contemplates a big aggrega
tion of dollars.' Most of tho people in
this country can not understand"' the
sensation of owning 100 in a'lnmp.
It used to be a common saying that A,
T. Stewart was worth a hundred mill
ions, but I believe his estate, after
death, amounted only to 3O,OO0,600.
There is a member of Congress from
Massachusetts whose close friends
range from $1,000,000 to $250,000 in
estimating his wealth. IJut on the
basis of popular guesses tho figures of
Senatorial wealth that I Baw to-day
footed up $139,000,000. According to
this calculation there are, counting
Vice-President' Morton, nineteen mill
ionaires in the Senate, which number
is "a third of the total membership.
When Zachariah Chandler came to tboj
Senate just before the war, l nave
heard that he could not find another
millionaire, in the .chamber. ' Only
lourtoen years ago there were but nine
millionaires in the Senate. Washing
ton Letter to Boston Globe.
Wife (to husband at break fast)
.John, I heard you mutter in your
sleep last night, 'You boys may think
what you like, but I'm of the opinion
that the dandiest maiden of the lot i
the Dizzy Blonde.'" Husband (after
explanation) "I think this coffee- i a
little cold, my dear! - Wife "I .thinl.
bo myself, John, love; ur4 I'll inak
you a fresh cap as delicious as nectar.'
Kpocb. '
Mrs. Cornelius VanderfoUt, when
she gives dinner parties, uses a solid
gold dinner service set with uncul
gems and with some courses Dresden
and Sevros plates worth more thas
$100 apiece.
The j'oung men are coming to the
front in New York State. The Speaker
of the House is only thirty-two and the
Speaker pro tem. of the Senate thirty
five. The oldest statesman in tho Leg
islature is only fifty-five.
Old Mrs. Baker, of Cairo, took"
new departure on her sixty-fourth
birthday. She ate an orange, a fig
and a date for the first time in hei
life, but concluded not to try a glass ol
lemonade for fear it might be danger
ous. .
- Robbins, the circus man, is a con
sistent Christian. He never swore ir
his life and never allowed any of his
Whenever he saw
a .1 ii 3 1 1J
one or tticra getting maa, ne wouiu
say: '"Here, now; get outside th
ropes if you are going to cuss.-'
Mrs. Newton, of Toronto, is one
of the four women who wore given the
Crimean medal. Queen Victoria her
self pinning it upon them. Mrs. New
ton went all through the Crimean war
as a nurse, and on that memorabl
day and night when the French cap
tured the Malakoff and the Englisl
assaulted the Redan, she was in th
third trench before the Redan attend
ing the wounded, and was thero 6hot
through tho knee.
London boasts of a musical prodigy
in the person of a young girl who can
play with extraordinary dexterity or
tho single string of the violin. She is
tho daughter of a rich city merchant,
and her father's opposition has pre
vented her from appearing in public.
Mrs. Livermoro, of New York.
n
says her nusDanu is .a iwjpuDiicaii.
while she is a Prohibitionist; he is f
protectionist and she a free trader; ht
has a pew in one church she lc
another; he has one doctor, she another:
and yet they are happy and harmonious
and never dream of quarreling.
A member of the New York -As
sembly is related to the Astors bt
marriage. Visitors to Albany ask U
have him pointed out to them, and ap
pear very much surprised to find he i
a,- plainly dressed man, who nevei
makes a speech, always behaves him
self, and doesn't seem a bit proud ol
his relationship to the leading familv
of the New York 400.
A shoemaker of Atlanta, Ga..
finished the largest pair of shoes ever
made for actual use. It took a piece
of leather containing 1,010 square
inches to make tho uppers, and 1.9GC
to make tho soles. Thi3 is 8.00C
square inches altogether. If thai
leather were cut into two strips arj
eighth of an inch wide, and made into
one long string, the string would be
21.000 inches loner. The soles weigh
S pounds. The soles are li
long. 5 wide and 8 inches
That doesn't count tho heel,
would add another inch to tho
Colonel James A. Wood died re
cently at his homo in BLoomfiold, Ky.,
aged seventy-four years. Colonei
Wood went to Texas in 1835 and took
part in tho rebellion against Mexico,
lie was at tho massacre of the Alamo,
and, with two others, escaped, thej
being the only survivors of that bloodj
event. Colonel Wood, in his accounl
of his escape, said that when Santa
Anna ordered the prisoners to bo shol
he dropped to the ground, as if he had
been killed at tho first discharge He
began to roll overwind continued roll
ing until the river was reached, when
ho sprang to his feet and got away
He never stopped traveling from tht
Alamo until he reached Kentucky.
inches
deep,
whict
depth.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
' Whenever- they havo a fight it
the French Senate, the true humorist
is impelled to speak of it as an uproar
bouffe. Harper's Bazar.
A Chicago man claims to be living
on eight cents a week. Nothing is
said of tho father-in-law he Is probabl v
living on also. Buffalo Express.
A follow in Chester, Pa., has
found out why a dog sometimes turns
around three limes- before, he lies
down for-a snooze. The reason is: A
dog thinks that one good turn deserves
a not her.
"Robert Elsewhere" was the boot
Inquired for by a youngster at the cir- -culating
libra ry the other day. v
There were 1.987,790,000 bushels
of corn raised in the United States ia
1888, which sold for $666,561,580.
Statistics show that in New En
gland seven out of ten widows "under
thirty-five marry within two years.
It is claimed that about five dol
lars worth of dogs have killed $10,000
worth of sheep in Michigan the past
year.
It is now given out in Boston that
the cremationists have lost 15 per
cent, of their strength in tho last year, -and
it is believed that another year or
two will finish them.
A well-known magazine statisti
cian says that America has a popula
tion of over 60,000,000, and a working
power of one hundred and eighty thou
sand billions of foot pounds per dny.
Benjamin Franklin's watch is
owned by a Lancaster, Pa., gentleman,
who still carries it and says that it
keeps good time. It is of savor,
shaped like a biscuit and has engraved
on its back: "Ben. Franklin, 1776,
Philadelphia." '
"Underdonedom" is what N. P.
Willis dubs tho brigade of half
Hedged masculines who crowd the
door-ways and blockade the entrance
to every ball-room, and are generally
too weary and blase to enjoy any thing ,
but the supper.
Statistics show that in 'England
business conditions really regulato. the
number of marriages. When wages,
are good many more marriages take
place than when they .ar not , so that,
the marriage rate corresponds closoJy
with the great changes in tradfc. ' '
A resident of Lexington, Ga., hasf
In his possession the brand that wai,
used during tho days of slavery for
branding slaves who were guilty of
murder. It Is a rudely constructed'
"MV mado of iron, which was he&tedS
red hot and applied to the . porsor.
sometimes to tha cheek, of tho one to
be branded.
A cat in Leo County, Ga-, is said
to have committed suicide on account
of the loss of her kittens. Tho ' young
felines were drowned. In tho after
noon the cat wont around, in-groat ,
grief,, and that night ended her life
by placing her head through a largo
crack in the crib and moving along
until she got to. a narrow place and
then letting go. She was found in the .
morning hanging stone dead.
Thero is a water wheel in us at
Bowdoinham, Me., which Is probably;
the only ono of its kind in existence"
It ia twenty-seven feet in diameter,
with a foot of its rim oufc of water at
high tide; the spokes are wide and set
diagonally, liko tho vanos of a wind
mill. It turns eighteen hours of the
day by tide power, running ono way
with tho flow, tho other way with the
ebb. With ono foot fall of the tide
this whool gives about fifty horso
power.
Bartolo Sepulvcda, who was par
doned and released from the peniten
tiary after twelve years of imprison
ment, asked the Legislature to appro
priate $15,000 to pay him for his loss of
time and damages by reason of his im
prisonment, says tho Los Angles
Tribune. He proved nn alibi after
twelvo years had elapsed. Ills crime
was nrurder and his excuse for wait- ,
ing so many years to prove his inno
cence is that ho was drunk when the
murdor was committed and could not
take care of his interests.
Three years ago John Wright, of
Pike County, Ga., lost his sight, and
the oculists that ho consulted agreed
that there was no possibility of his
ever seeing again. Tho other day as
Mr. Wright sat on tho porch in the
sunlight his eyes began to itch violent-;
ly. He rubbed them, and when ho
took away his fingers he was consolousu
that he could distinguish objects dim- .
ly. During the day his power of vision
increased, and at last account tho old
gentleman was in a fair way to see a
well as ever.
Generous Hospitality.
As a general thing, the lavish ex
penditure with which some rich people
entertain is moro apt to detract from
than to increase the pleasure cf tbe
occasion. In tho exercise of a gener
fLeadpipe .(meditatively) "Yes! ous hospitality we assemble a certain
I was a wild one whon I was a boyi
---Theater
times i.na a
m;in:ii.'i-j4 say they
food deal of talent iu tin
Rochester Poat-E- ljh-cm-
My fondest dream as a youngster was
to grow up and become a red-handed
pirate." Householder (sighing)
"But you didn't, did you?:' Load
pipe '(placidly) - "No; I became a
plumber." Lowell Citizen.
London barber to American tourist
-"There's a" quantity of dust in the
nair. sir.". American tourist "The
! ' You don't say! Well, give mc
a good shampoo." L. B. "Ho! I don'1
moan ih thfe 'air of t he 'ead, I mean in
the hair of the hatmonphere." N. Y.
World.-
Lie I. Time eleven a. m. Mother
--Now mind, Johnnie, there's a ghost
in that dark closet guarding the jam!1'
Johnnie-trembles violently and com
mences to water at tho mouth. Lie IL
Time two p. in. Johnnie "O. mam
ma! The ghost has eaten half of the
jam!" Lies.
- Hostess "And so you really be
lieve the moon to be inhabited. Pro
fessor?" Professor Knizmaohen "Ah,
veil. I do not sav zat. but zero is vun
moon in vich zere mus uo vun man.
Hostess "And which might that bo.
pray?' "Vy fee vat you call it? ze
honeymoon! V
Why are people who are eup-
t)fi.Hfcd to brinr bad luck called
Jonahs' ?" asked Squildig. "Because
like Jonah of old, they bring disaster
to their associates. " replied McSwlili-
. . i M
en. "The resemblance is not peri cot.
"Why not?" "Jonah was a prophet,
hut the modern Jonah is a loss. '
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Teacher (to hiftorial claps)
Wbr,re. did . Georce Washington live
after ho retired from public life?" No
r,r,f Mmwl to know. Trache r "Was
it at Washington or at Mount Vernon?''
Still no reply. T.-acher 'Coin.-, chil
dren ; nouiw of you must know."
SnutH.Ht Hcholar "I know, teacher;
lie liv-J in the hearts of his country
men." Harper's Youc People,
selected number of congenial people
for a common enjoyment. It U pleas- l
ant to bo credited with good taste, and .
to succeed in what we-tndertaki, but
it is not to be supposed that we invite
society in order that thy'mny beomo
painfully aware' that our manner of ,
living is grander than , theirs. Host ;
assured that if people go away from
your house with an uncomfortable
feeling that it" is impossible for them
to exercise the same kind of hospital- i
itv. some mistake has been made. Tho
finest possible tact is to make every
one feel at home, and both hoi t and ;
hostess should spare no effort ia that
dirwtion. Tho hostess, should bo ,
quietly attired, so that she shall not Si
outshine her guests. For tho tirno
being those whom you invito to your
house belong to It. You are bound to
look after their comfort in every way.
and to protect them, If need bo, from
.. . . rfll " ' -1
any slight. Alinneapous inuu:;.
m i
Heavy American Locomotive. ' I
A mong the heaviest locomoti v an ever
built are those rncenuy put on its
mo intain division by the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad. llieir actual
In wnrVinf order is 153.010
pounds, and 13H,:1I0 pounds in on tho
irivcrs. laeynave a wnciivn lorco
..!., ! 1 ,1 .. TV,.!.
are Tl inches in diameter by I'M inches
stroke; driving wheels, 50 inches di
ameter; boiler, 6 feet in diamxter and
13 feet 6 inches long over tubt sheets.
The tubes are 270 in number, snd "1
imhesin diameter. Tho fire box is
over 11 feet long inside by4i inches
wl3e, and is placed above the frames,
hut not above the wheels. Ti e heat
in j sur face in the ti rv box is 1H, square
fc-t, and the total heating surface
2,:U." square fiL The engirt I de
signed to burn anthracite, bin not liko
the Wootten engines buckwheat op r
tua cgL N. Y. Sun.